MUSIC

Arditti Quartet & Jennifer Walshe

Digging up the past? No! This is an attack to the future by the musical ensemble Arditti Quartet, which presents contemporary works for strings by Harrison Birtwistle and Jennifer Walshe at the Main Stage of the Onassis Cultural Centre.

1 June 2016 - 31 December 2019

COLLABORATIONS

InterfacesNew Models and Practices for Audience Development in Contemporary Music in Europe

Eight countries join forces in this innovative interdisciplinary project which seeks to introduce audiences to cutting-edge work by musicians and sound artists.

1 September 2016 - 31 December 2018

COLLABORATIONS

iDanceProviding access to contemporary dance education for people with disabilities

People with and without disabilities dance as part of the European iDance programme, showing that we can all access culture through dance.

1 October 2016 - 31 May 2017

Free (including the cost of materials, transport and entry)

SCHOOLS

Contemporary Art: experiencing is understanding!School children get up close and personal with contemporary art

What’s the link between an ancient amphora and a comic? Can the figures on red-figure pottery inspire a choreography? The OCC turns school children into appreciators and creators of contemporary art.

31 October 2016 - 4 June 2017

SCHOOLS

How can adversity help us discover our inner strength and real self? A stage adaptation of Jack London’s much-loved novel tours schools around Greece.

1 November 2016 - 30 April 2017

Free

SCHOOLS

Cavafy goes to schoolA school programme focused on the Alexandrian poet, from the Cavafy Archive and the Onassis Foundation

Can we get to know Cavafy through... comics, new technologies and music? Six original workshops tour the provinces putting high school students aged 12–18 in touch with the work of the Alexandrian poet. Final destination: Kastoria.

1 November 2016 - 31 May 2017

Free

SCHOOLS

“Hack” Your ClassroomMake your classroom just like you want it!

My classroom has poor sound insulation. Is there anything I can do about it? Can I design a... "smart" desk? Of course you can: just press Enter on the 3D printer.

1 January - 31 May 2017

Free

SCHOOLS

Authentic PlayAuthentic joy and lots of fun from the OCC in nursery, primary and special schools

But what are the rules of the game. Express yourself freely through your body, be courteous, respect others, trust and —most importantly— enjoy the game: it’s fun!

1 January - 31 May 2017

Free

SCHOOLS

My landscape in soundsSound and lessons: Geography, History, New Technologies, Music and Art

What tales have the neighbourhoods around the OCC to tell us? First we listen, then we record, and finally we map Neos Kosmos, Nea Smyrni, Kallithea and Plaka.

1 January - 31 May 2017

SCHOOLS

The OCC: digital playTwo open-access digital libraries on art and technology, based on OCC productions

We play on our computers and learn with the Zoom Net & My Design digital applications.

1 January - 31 May 2017

5 € per student

SCHOOLS

The incredible journeyA participatory performance with music, film techniques and movement from the films of Georges Méliès

Get yourself on screen and save Georges Méliès! Humour, fantasy, magic tricks and visual effects for the silent era director and master illusionist.

ALT.ART

GR80sGreece of the 80s at the Onassis Cultural Centre

What do you remember from the ’80s? What would you keep and what would you throw away? Which song did you frantically dance? Which poster did you have hanging on your bedroom wall? Come and let us unravel together the mythology of the ’80s in our country, to remember again, or to learn again a misunderstood decade.